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The Little Girl
Question
Given below are some emotions that Kezia felt. Match the emotions in Column A
with the items in Column B.
Solution
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A |
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B |
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1 |
fear or terror |
(iii) (iv) (v) (vii) |
father comes home speaking to father going to bed when alone at home father stretched out on the sofa, |
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2 |
glad sense of relief |
(i) |
father comes into her room to give |
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(ii) |
noise of the carriage grows fainter |
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3 |
a “funny” feeling, perhaps of understanding |
(vi) |
father comforts her and falls asleep |
Some More Questions From The Little Girl Chapter
Kezia decides that there are “different kinds of fathers”. What kind of father
was Mr Macdonald, and how was he different from Kezia’s father?
What do the following phrases mean to you? Discuss in class.
(i) humid shadows
(ii) starry spheres
(iii) what a bliss
(iv) a thousand dreamy fancies into busy being start
(v) a thousand recollections weave their air-threads into woof
(i) humid shadows
(ii) starry spheres
(iii) what a bliss
(iv) a thousand dreamy fancies into busy being start
(v) a thousand recollections weave their air-threads into woof
What does the poet like to do when it rains?
What is the single major memory that comes to the poet? Who are the “darling dreamers” he refers to?
Is the poet now a child? Is his mother still alive?
When you were a young child, did your mother tuck you in, as the poet’s did?
Do you like rain? What do you do when it rains steadily or heavily as described in the poem?
Does everybody have a cosy bed to lie in when it rains? Look around you and describe how different kinds of people or animals spend time, seek shelter etc. during rain.
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